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Pocketbook is e-ink, allows you to install your own fonts, allows you to turn off the frontlight entirely.
When closed, it's blank. If there are settings to change this, I don't know about them, but I also don't care about them. Opening the "home" page shows you the cover of your most recent book + smaller covers of next-most-recent books. I don't know of an option to show the full-page cover once you've started reading.
I don't think it has a way to use less of the screen without editing the ebook files. But this isn't something I've ever cared to do; I don't know if there's a force-a-margin option somewhere.
Does not force justification.
Font sizes go up to 39 pts; this has some variation depending on the ebook - in most books, I'm happy with 10 pt; sometimes I move that up or down a bit. If the ebook has the font set to "1.2" size, then the jumps as they get larger will be bigger.
Image and PDF support are both lousy/mediocre. PDF may have a reflow option but if so, it was so awful I gave up on it. (However, the larger screens may be fine. The issues with images and PDFs are "they don't show up well on a 6" screen and there's no option to zoom.")
Includes button for page turning. Some models have an SD card slot.
Navigation includes "most recently added" reverse-chrono list, "library" that lets you go poking through folders, and a search option that's pretty decent.
Prone to showing the subtitle as the title for some books.
I've been very happy with my Pocketbook HD3 and plan to replace it with a newer model with an SD card. (Which hopefully won't have the "can't show some emojis and then the book crashes" bug. Other Pocketbook people have told me they don't have this, so it may be model-specific.)
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